Marty Levine

Marty Levine October 19, 2021 In the last months, Carole and  I have driven across the country. From Chicago to Salt Lake City (UT) to Encinitas (CA) to Albuquerque...

Marty Levine October 12, 2021 In 1968, shortly before he was murdered, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, was still giving us hope that we would overcome. Speaking at the...

Marty Levine October 6, 2021 The hope that this time would be different and that long-awaited significant systemic change would emerge from the hard-fought 2020 election is quickly fading....

Marty Levine October 3, 2021 Earlier this month I wrote about the complicated nature of modern philanthropy. How good intentions may not be enough to correct a seriously unbalanced...

Marty Levine September 20, 2021` The stress that COVID-19 has placed on the US economy and our system of governance has made it harder to ignore the glaring flaws...

Marty Levine September 15, 2021 One of the very good guys teaches us how broken the philanthropic system is. I open the web page of the Open Society Foundations...

Marty Levine September 4, 2021 This may be an uplifting tale of good people trying to do good things in their desire to address the nation’s growing wealth gap...

Marty Levine September 10, 2021 Earlier this month, we got one more indication that government can work and that we, as a nation, can take on our big problems....

Marty Levine September 5, 2021 In the twisted logic of this age, corporations are like people with civil rights to be protected. And, since political spending is now just...

  Marty Levine August 30, 2021 After 90 minutes I had had enough. That’s how long I could tolerate watching an angry audience attack the Commack School Board, and...